October, 2009
Veeam backup and Replication V4
Ok, backups, the bain of my life, I remember in a previous role we had to split this job, each of us doing a one week rota on backups as they should be the kind of thing that you run and everything is fine, but did they ever work ? No. Anyway enough about my [...]
PowerCLI: vSphere License Export
Seeing Luc’s recent blog post where he explains how to add a vCenter License using PowerCLI, I thought I would stick with the licensing theme and show you how to export your vSphere License keys and details to a csv file enabling you to keep them backed up in a safe place. This script will [...]
VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack Management
I have spoken about VESI and PowerGUI a few times on the blog now so you should know all about these FREE little gems, one thing that I like about them is the way you can create your own PowerPack. A PowerPack is basically a collection of scripts and actions and cmdlets all bundled together [...]
PowerCLI: Listing Cluster Primary HA Nodes
Following my recent post on Slot Sizes and pointing to Duncan’s great HA Deepdive article I came across a great script today on Hypervisor.fr, he has been creating some great PowerCLI scripts recently and also sent me some fantastic additions to my Daily Report, all of which will be added in the next version which [...]
PowerShell V2 – Your admin life just got easier again
If you haven’t yet heard Powershell V2 has arrived for all Windows operating systems and is downloadable from here. So should you download it ? YES Why ? Far too many reasons than I can write on this blog post, but if you think about it, how good was PowerShell v1 and its the first [...]
Workstation & Server Audit Script V3
One thing I wish I had was more time to re-visit my old scripts and re-write them as I often look at my old script and it sends a cold shiver down my spine as I now know a better way of doing things. As I was away for the weekend and had no internet [...]
PowerCLI: Mass VM Portgroup Change
I was asked in my Script List if it was possible to change Multiple VMs to attach to a new PortGroup, this task is easy enough so long as you remember that every VM can have up to 4 virtual nics in VI3 and up to 10 in vSphere. So to change all virtual machines [...]
The VESI 1.2 – Get it now
People who read my blog know how much I like the Virtualisation EcoShell, I love the way it adds the power of PowerCLI back into the GUI to enable you to create customised GUI’s all of your own enhancing the true power of PowerShell and allowing people who do not know how to code in [...]
PowerCLI: Host Network Config
Whilst on a recent engagement with a customer we were looking at best practices and trying to quickly see how each PortGroup was configured, did all hosts have the same nics assigned to the same vSwitches, were all Portgroups setup the same to use the correct active and standby adapters ? Have you ever tried [...]
PowerGUI 1.9.5 Released
As the readers of this blog probably know I am a big fan of PowerGUI and the VESI, not just for the great GUI console that enables fantastic powershell goodness in the form of a nice user interface but also for the fully functional script editor. The one thing that amazes me about these applications [...]
